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Chapter 8 - Chapter 8: Unknown

6:15 PM: They peered around the corner of a building at a strange man, the man unaware he was being tailed. As he rounded the next corner, the pursuer lurked forwards until they could see him again. The onlooker silently watched as he went into the basement of a large building. The building appeared to be abandoned. Even though it appeared abandoned, it was attached to a nice apartment complex, which made the person assume the strange man probably lived there. They followed the man down silently into the basement. The person was starting to think that this probably wasn't their best idea of the week, but it beat sitting at the hotel doing nothing.

When they entered the basement they noticed there were boxes near the door. The pursuer snuck behind the boxes and ducked low. They peered over the boxes and examined the room. The room was dark and murky, it was dimly lit on the opposite side of the room. There was a lab, and many strange chemicals appeared to be heating over the lab flames. All over the lab were strange pills and syringes. One of the needles appeared to have some kind of strange blue goo in it. When the person looked past the lab they noticed something strange. There were cages at the far end of the basement. It appeared that the cages had people in them. The other cages looked to have piles of corpses.

"What kind of sick place is this?" The person thought to themself.

The strange man's phone suddenly rang out causing the pursuer to startle and duck back behind the boxes. The man picked up his phone and answered it.

"Hello? Yes? You did what!?" The man shouted as he quickly ran over to one of the cages that the people were in. The person slowly peaked over the boxes once again to see what was happening.

The man examined everybody closely. A wave of concern briefly crossed over his rugged features before it was replaced by complete rage.

"Honestly, what were you thinking? Did you think it was a dog and it would come back if you called him? OF COURSE NOT YOU IMBECILE!!!" He shouted into the phone obnoxiously. "Maybe if you hadn't let it out in the first place, none of this would be happening!" He shook his head repeatedly back and forth as he listened to the person on the other end of the call. "Kill it? No, don't kill it! You can chop off its limbs for all I care, but DO NOT KILL IT! Understood." He growled the order menacingly into the phone. "Bring it back quietly, don't draw any unnecessary attention to yourself either." He hung up the phone and mumbled to himself. "What an idiot."

The person watched patiently from behind the boxes. Over an hour and a half passed before the man mumbled some complaints, took a piece of paper from his lab and went outside. Once the person was sure the man had left, they walked over to the lab examining it closely. They grabbed a clipboard off the lab that contained what appeared to be lab results. The clipboard had a few other papers under it. They took the clipboard and shoved it into their backpack. Afterwards they made their way over to the cages, in hopes to release the people in them. As the intruder got closer to the cages, they stopped. The people looked funny. Their skin was a sickly pale color, and their mouths hung loosely open. Not a single one was moving. They just stood as if they were statues. The person took one cautious step closer, with that one step they stepped on a small plastic measuring cup that had lost its way from the lab. However small it may have been, it made a loud screeching noise as it scraped its way over the rough pavement floor. The noise caused the person to withdraw their step. The sickly looking people snapped their heads in the direction of the noise. They all quickly ran to the edge of the cage and reached their hands out. They all groaned loudly as they grabbed at the person. If the person hadn't withdrawn their step, the sickly looking people definitely would have been able to grab the person. Their eyes widened in shock. They ran out of the basement in a hurry. They ran to the front of the building making sure to grab the address before deciding to beat feet out of the area. Thankfully, it was about time for the person to go back to Seoul, since they are a student there. They were only visiting Busan to go sightseeing in the first place.

Since their train was departing soon at 8:30 PM, they decided to grab a taxi and head to the station. The person started to dial the police as the taxi drove away, but before they could finish dialing the number, there was a loud bang nearby and the whole side of the abandoned building got engulfed in flames. Which left any onlookers staring in shock.

The person didn't bother to call the police since the explosion had happened. With the explosion, there would be cops and firemen all over the area. It was bound to lead them to the lab. As the person arrived at the train station they quickly walked to the train and found a quiet train car to sit in. There was already one person in the car. They wore a mask and had blonde hair, they appeared to be waiting on someone as they talked on the phone.

After just seeing so much happen, their hands shook violently. The person pulled on their headphones, which they kept on their neck at all times. They turned on some Chinese instrumental music hoping it would calm their nerves. Closing their eyes, the person tried to calm down...